Workers' Compensation

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50 State Legislative Survey At a Glance for Workers’ Compensation
Posted on 23 Oct 2013 by Thomas A. Robinson

Quite a few years ago I had the pleasure of participating, along with Emeritus Professor Arthur Larson and a few others, in a small, lively, interactive, non-musical “jam session” at Duke University Law School, during which we discussed various... Read More

Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis: The Year of Constitutional Challenges
Posted on 8 Nov 2017 by LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff

By Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., co-author, Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law As most states move into the second millennia of their respective workers’ compensation acts, one might expect that most constitutional issues within the occupational... Read More

Five Good Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Miss WCRI’s 31st Annual Conference
Posted on 6 Feb 2015 by Karen C. Yotis

Anyone familiar with the Workers Compensation Research Institute’s 31-year history of providing the data and analysis that industry mavericks rely upon to understand, manage and effect real change have come to expect WCRI conferences to provide... Read More

Thomas A. Robinson on Top Issues in Workers’ Compensation Law for 2013
Posted on 17 Mar 2013 by Thomas A. Robinson

Things appear to be “pumping” in the world of workers’ compensation. Legislatures are gathering. Proponents of “reform”—whatever that is—are huddled together, planning their strategies. Pointing to the activities... Read More

The Adversaries and Frenemies of Workers’ Compensation
Posted on 21 Sep 2015 by Karen C. Yotis

Coming down on the side of a system that endures “You have enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something.” – Eminem By Karen C. Yotis, Esq. and Robin E. Kobayashi, J.D. When it comes to workers’ compensation... Read More

Workers' Compensation Resources Research Report Issue 9
Posted on 19 Jun 2015 by LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff

Issue 9 of the Workers’ Compensation Resources Research Report contains the first of a series of issues that provide an Overview of Workers’ Compensation . Part I discusses the origins of workers’ compensation programs in the U.S. early... Read More

A New Mediation Track to Combat Opioid Use by Injured Workers
Posted on 3 Nov 2015 by Deborah Kohl

Massachusetts’ new pilot program aims to break the emphasis on opioids On October 23, 2015, attorneys and judges from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire gathered at Gillette Stadium to discuss a variety of workers’ compensation... Read More

Federalization of Workers’ Comp: Politics, Opt-Outs and Survival of the State-Based Status Quo
Posted on 19 Feb 2016 by Karen C. Yotis

By Karen C. Yotis, Esq., Feature Resident Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter A chronicle of workers’ compensation in the United States tells the story of a persistent (but failing) federal advocacy that gives... Read More

Oklahoma: Commission May Rule on Specific Constitutional Issues
Posted on 22 Apr 2016 by Larson's Spotlight

Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Commission is appropriately empowered to determine whether a provision of the state’s workers’ compensation law [Title 85A] is being constitutionally applied to a particular party in a proceeding... Read More

Opt-Out Lessons From Lone Star State
Posted on 7 Apr 2016 by Thomas A. Robinson

Shining the Real Light on So-Called Texas Opt Outs By Thomas A. Robinson, co-author Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law As Lex Larson and I point out in the opening article in Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis , 2015... Read More

8 Myths and Facts About Workers’ Compensation (August 2016)
Posted on 19 Aug 2016 by LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff

The LexisNexis Legal Newsroom Workers’ Compensation Law has interviewed leading experts from different segments of the workers’ compensation industry to tell us some common myths and facts about workers’ compensation. Note that the myths... Read More

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Miss the WCRI 32nd Annual Conference
Posted on 26 Feb 2016 by LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff

Anyone familiar with the Workers Compensation Research Institute’s 32-year history of providing the data and analysis that industry mavericks rely upon to understand, manage and effect real change have come to expect WCRI conferences to provide... Read More

Industry Bloggers Debate the Workers’ Compensation System
Posted on 8 Aug 2013 by LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff

At the recent California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation 11th Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, industry bloggers Mark Walls ( Work Comp Analysis Group on LinkedIn), Robert Rassp ( The Rassp Report ), Rebecca Shafer ( ReduceYourWorkersComp )... Read More

Oklahoma Opt Outs and ERISA
Posted on 6 May 2013 by LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff

Proponents of the recently passed Oklahoma workers’ compensation reforms proclaim that the opt out provisions provide an alternative to the newly formed administrative system for processing injured worker claims and do not require that alternative... Read More